George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
love jealousy burning
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
miracle
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
history memoir
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
success sports running
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
talking tiptoes poetry-is
Poetry is talking on tiptoe.
water golden fields
The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
passion plot needs
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
horse ocean moving
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!
struggle reflection men
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
sweet rawness comedy
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
song voice giving
The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
christian boys atheism
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
men mind atheism
The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
done enjoy immense
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.